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10-04-08, 03:38 PM
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#1 | | Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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|  Surprise Bonus! Servers coming back online soon!
Edit: As of October 5th, the worlds are now back online!
Last night we got a late email from one of the guys at Netelligent who informed us that they pulled a few strings to get us up and going at the end of Friday night instead of waiting until Monday.
After a few hours last night and the same today, I'm excited to announce we'll be coming back up quite soon! I would have announced it sooner but I feared getting your hopes up yet again only to meet with more issues.
Now, things are a bit different in term of where you connect:
If you're logged into West, you can try west.layonara.com to connect, if that doesn't work yet, you can use the IP which is 64.15.70.106, the password is the same.
If you're logged into Central, you will now need to specify the server port. So you can go central.layonara.com:5122 (for the pedantic, yes I know west and central resolve to the same IPs now, so it doesn't matter the server name). If that does not work, then you can specify the IP, but make sure to include the port: 64.15.70.106:5122.
Nothing else has changed with one exception. We've turned on autoportalling again between servers. We once had an issue of that crashing a server, and we want to see if our new setup will fix that. We're hoping so. So when you take a cross server portal, it won't boot you and you'll need to relogin to the destination server, instead it will interconnect you to the other server automatically. This may be temporary though if we discover it still crashes us.
I'm not positive how this setup will endure the traffic yet, so lets hope things are fairly smooth. I see no reason why they wouldn't be. One other concern I have is with the speech recognition system, since its now processing for both west and central simultaneously. Anyway, we'll see how these issues go but everything appears to be good now.
I will followup in this thread when the servers are back online and ready. Could be anywhere from 1 to 3 hours.
Cheers,
orth
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Last edited by orth : 10-12-08 at 09:29 PM.
Reason: Update since this is on the front page, wanted to make it clear we were indeed online.
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10-04-08, 04:27 PM
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#2 | | Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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|  Re: Surprise Bonus! Servers coming back online soon!
Welcome back NWN Layonara, let's hope for smooth sailing here on in. The servers are now back up.
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10-04-08, 04:41 PM
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#3 | | Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| Re: Surprise Bonus! Servers coming back online soon!
Hehe oops, accidentally saved the game, then when trying to save west from crashing I accidentally killed central.
All PEBKAC folks, don't panic, coming right back up
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10-04-08, 04:45 PM
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#4 | | Orc of the Black Hand Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Nebraska
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| Re: Surprise Bonus! Servers coming back online soon!
That would explain the sudden (and unexpexcted) 'Saving Game' screen and subsequent server timeout 
No worries. You all did wonders getting the servers back up as soon as you did 
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#5 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Northern CA Bay Area
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| Re: Surprise Bonus! Servers coming back online soon!
Thanks Orth for taking this on and rocking it out!
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| Re: Surprise Bonus! Servers coming back online soon!
Thanks alot! Did a good job with getting them back up!
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#7 | | The Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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| Re: Surprise Bonus! Servers coming back online soon!
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Originally Posted by orth  Hehe oops, accidentally saved the game, then when trying to save west from crashing I accidentally killed central.
All PEBKAC folks, don't panic, coming right back up | Hilarious!
That happened to me a few weeks back and I got (totally justified )comments like "Isn't that supposed to happen when the new GMs join?" (which is entirely true of course, because everyone saves the server at least once after they join as GM), so I felt pretty, well, stupid saving the server after almost 5 years of not doing so.
But now I am in the good company of orth who also accidentally saved the server
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